The Marel Hidalgo Organ Trio presents “A Celebration of Black Jazz Composers,” featuring seventeen-year-old Marel Hidalgo on guitar & banjo, Leonieke Scheuble on organ, and Winard Harper on drums!

They will be playing music from some of the most important African-American jazz composers of the swing, bebop, hard bop, and post-bop eras, including Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Benny Golson, Horace Silver, Charles Mingus, Tadd Dameron, Woody Shaw, Dizzy Gillespie, Randy Weston, Joe Henderson, Duke Pearson, Gigi Gryce, and more.

Marel Hidalgo is a young guitarist, banjoist, arranger, orchestrator, and bandleader hailing from Neptune, New Jersey, whose playing ranges from Straight-Ahead and Jamaican Jazz to Avant-garde. His playing quickly caught the attention of the jazz scene, and he has been highly active in jazz venues and festivals in the US and overseas ever since. He has performed at Exit Zero Jazz Festival, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Count Basie’s Vogel Theater, The New York Guitar Festival at Bryant Park in NYC, The Elnora Guitar Festival at The Krannert Center in Illinois, Teatro Nacional and Festival Día Internacional del Jazz in San José, Costa Rica, and Sunset Sunside Jazz Club in Paris, France. He has also worked alongside many talented and renowned musicians, such as Billy Hart, Roger Humphries, Winard Harper, Johnathan Blake, Byron Landham, Carlomagno Araya, Adam Nussbaum and Tommy Campbell, Monty Alexander, Pat Bianchi, Radam Schwartz, Jared Gold, John Lee, Dwayne Dolphin, Gary Mazzaroppi, and Felipe Fournier.

Suggested Donation: $10
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If you cannot pay the suggested donation, please call 201-836-3499 or email aortega@puffinfoundation.org to ask for free reservation(s). Thank you!